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  • Two July Conjunctions! (One in 2037)

    Today, we are going to take a look at some upcoming events based on the suggestions of various commenters on my YouTube videos. In celebration of hitting 500 subscribers on YouTube, I am planning on making a Q&A video. As such, I am looking for any questions that anybody might have that I may be

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  • The Night Sky in July: A Look Ahead

    Today, we are going to have a very quick look through the month of July. Some of you may have already seen a quick look at the coming month of July here thanks to the article accompanying the Irish language video I recently posted to my YouTube channel. If you go back a few posts,

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  • Thank You For 500 Subscribers! Venus, Jupiter & Sirius Together and The September Occultation!

    First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my YouTube channel. I am delighted to be up at 500 subscribers, a little bit more now, so hopefully that number will continue to grow. In some of the most recent installments, I have taken a look at things that

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  • An Spéir san Oíche i Mí Iúil | The Sky at Night in the Month of July

    Today we will be looking ahead to the month of July. The first thing we will look at is something that we already know about. I’m going to talk about it again, but I have recently dealt with Mercury and its greatest elongation from the Sun. If you look back on the recent articles on

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  • Transit of Venus, an Occultation, and Parallax

    Today, we are going to take a look at parallax, or more so, we’re going to take a look at the transit of Venus. We’re also going to take another look at the occultation of Venus that’s coming up later this year. We’re going to jump forward to the same event that we took a

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  • A Conjunction in 2037 and This Year! (Possibly an Occultation)

    Today we are going to yet again look into the future to look at some interesting upcoming events. We are going to start by looking just a little further ahead this year, we will just be looking forward to the 19th of September. We’re going to go forward to the appropriate date and we’re going

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  • A Better Look at the June Constellations

    Today we are going to take a closer look at the constellations that we’re going to see over the course of the month. I have already taken a look at the planets and the constellations in June, back in May we looked ahead to this month and the title of the piece was the Planets

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  • Deep Sky Objects: The Pegasus Cluster and Wandering Along the Milky Way

    Today we are going to take a look at some deep sky objects. Deep sky objects are just objects outside of our solar system. In a way, the stars are deep sky objects, but we don’t really think of them as objects generally, they are just stars. Deep sky objects are things like other galaxies,

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  • Mercury: Forewarning Before its Greatest Elongation!

    Today we are going to take a quick look for the planet Mercury. In a recent video, I just about spotted Mercury just above the sunset towards the end of June. Now that we are into June, of course the sunset is going to be getting later, as late as it can get. That means

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  • Parade of Planets 2028 and Mars/Mercury Occultation 2079

    Today we are going to yet again take a look into the distant future, or not so distant future to begin with, to take a look at some upcoming events. These are yet more events that have been suggested by commenters, though one is a review of a previously observed event. Some of you may

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